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SUBMITTER: Onishi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6832437 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Onishi Sachiyo S Tajika Masahiro M Tanaka Tsutomu T Hirayama Yutaka Y Hara Kazuo K Mizuno Nobumasa N Kuwahara Takamichi T Okuno Nozomi N Inaba Yoshitaka Y Kodaira Takeshi T Abe Tetsuya T Muro Kei K Shimizu Masahito M Niwa Yasumasa Y
Journal of clinical medicine 20191009 10
The prognostic significance of sarcopenia in unresectable advanced esophageal cancer remains unclear. Our study retrospectively evaluated 176 consecutive Japanese patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who had been diagnosed with unresectable advanced cancer in Aichi Cancer Center Hospital between January 2007 and December 2014. Skeletal muscle mass was calculated from abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans before treatment, and patients were divided into sarcopenic and non-sarcopeni ...[more]